[mythtv-users] non timeshifted video

[Brian May]

>>>>> "J" == J Donavan Stanley <jdonavan at jdonavan.net> writes:

    >> Does myth yet offer support for non-timeshifted video, similar
    >> to say with xawtv?  I know this question has come up several
    >> times in the past (I've even
    >> 
    >> asked it myself before) and that there are workarounds, just
    >> want to confirm whether this feature is native yet.
    >> 

    J> If you're talking about watching TV without the associated
    J> delay of a PVR then the answer is no, with an additional "and
    J> it probably never will be" added on for good measure.

I am just curious, what are the technical reasons for this delay?

Presumably the PVR somehow uses the delay to get better compression?
-- 
Brian May <bam at snoopy.apana.org.au>